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CONSENSUS
An erotic thriller dulled by a messy narrative.
CAST & CREW
Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Beatrice Dalle
Directed by Claire Denis
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SYNOPSIS
Without question "Trouble Every Day" was the most scandalous and shocking films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, made all the more stunning coming from celebrated French director Claire Denis, named by the Village Voice One of the 1990’s Ten Best Directors. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
89 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Mar 1, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Lot 47 Films
GENRE
Foreign Films, French, Cannibalism, Horror, Thriller, Rape, Science, Violence, Horror Movies
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Trouble Every Day Site
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TRAILER & MEDIA
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 "The increasingly diverse French director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking, sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history."
-- Chris Wiegand, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
 "Narratively, Trouble Every Day is a plodding mess."
-- Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, POPMATTERS
"I have no problem with "difficult" movies, or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out. But first, you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort, and "I"
-- Nathan Shumate, COLD FUSION VIDEO REVIEWS
"Vincent Gallo is right at home in this French shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"I'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence: This erotic cannibal movie is boring."
-- Mark Rahner, SEATTLE TIMES
"An awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating."
-- Frank Ochieng, FILMCRITIC.COM
"Skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise."
-- Arthur Lazere, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Rippling with ideas, Trouble Every Day is cinematically astonishing in ways we just aren’t used to anymore."
-- Jeremiah Kipp, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"Hardly a film that comes along every day."
-- Ed Kelleher, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Though it goes further than both, anyone who has seen The Hunger or Cat People will find little new here, but a tasty performance from Vincent Gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary."
-- Pam Grady, REEL.COM
"The characters search for meaning in capricious, even dangerous sexual urges. The irony is that the only selfless expression of love may be the failure to consummate it."
-- Bryant Frazer, BRYANT FRAZER'S DEEP FOCUS
"Had the film boasted a clearer, more memorable, the creepiness would have gotten under the skin."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"A tone poem of transgression."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
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"A uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot."
-- Josh Ralske, ALL MOVIE GUIDE
"[Denis] might be off her nut, but she can sure make an interesting film, a la Davids Lynch and Cronenberg."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"[Denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"The film is an odd little piece, one in which its malaise disposition persists to engender the cinematic thrill that subcultural viewers hope for."
-- Jon Lap, APOLLO GUIDE
"What one is left with, even after the most awful acts are committed, is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream."
-- Glenn Kenny, PREMIERE MAGAZINE
"Ultimately, the message of Trouble Every Day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life’s stasis."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
"Rarely has skin looked as beautiful, desirable, even delectable, as it does in Trouble Every Day."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"It's an odd show, pregnant with moods, stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"There may have been a good film in "Trouble Every Day," but it is not what is on the screen."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with Trouble Every Day; the movie lacks both thrills and humor."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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ROTTEN 27%
Avg. Rating: 5.2/10 |
"What's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"The picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Watching Trouble Every Day, at least if you don't know what's coming, is like biting into what looks like a juicy, delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth full of rotten pulp and living worms."
-- Andrew O'Hehir, SALON.COM
"Nothing Denis has made before, like Beau Travil and Nenette et Boni, could prepare us for this gory, perverted, sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre."
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"Here the love scenes all end in someone screaming. Maybe there's a metaphor here, but figuring it out wouldn't make Trouble Every Day any better."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"The story of Trouble Every Day ... is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film, and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore, if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"Denis is an extraordinarily reticent storyteller."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Trouble Every Day is a success in some sense, but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead."
-- Chris Fujiwara, BOSTON GLOBE
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"once she lets her love depraved leads meet, [Denis'] story becomes a hopeless, unsatisfying muddle"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
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